Clones Go Home is zapped with surprise to announce two new chapbooks. Lauren Levin’s A Little Chat with the Sun and Ivy Johnson’s Maiden, Mother, Crone. Clicking on the cover pictures below will take you to our purchasing page.
A Little Chat with the Sun is an invocation between a liminal then and now. The way a conversation with past weaves into present, how mourning reflects and encourages, grows, laughs, confines, expands. “it’s hard not to imagine Earth a room / everything’s hidden in. Where the answers will turn up / if you keep digging. But it’s not like that. I don’t know / What else to tell you.”
Maiden, Mother, Crone explores the shifting stages of a femme life, the many selves channeling, embodying, the difference rendered by society into projections and those personalities that bubble to the surface to converse, curse and conjure. “I’m trying to say / There is nothing to soak up the time / But it’s the opposite / The time is soaked up / In a black hole sponge / In the corner of my room / Where I put my dreams / And the night terrors emerge.”
We’d also like to post a special thanks to Joel Gregory. Both of these chaps are incalculably enriched by their artwork. The flower and landscape paintings in A Little Chat with the Sun, where the gorgeous detail and surreal dailiness offer an reflective window, a portal into the work. In Maiden, Mother, Crone, the portrait on the left back cover of Ivy Johnson is not just a likeness but a shared vision, that gothic arc.
Clones Go Home doesn’t like capital. So, outside of shipping and production costs, all monies will go to a charity of the author’s choice. All books will be going out by the end of August.
Clones Go Home is a creation of Joseph Bradshaw and Nicholas DeBoer, in collaboration with the Potlatch Discordian Network.
Lauren Levin’s
A Little Chat with the Sun
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Ivy Johnson’s
Maiden, Mother, Crone
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